To celebrate a quarter of a century as a band, Silverstein are going both large and small. Their recording sessions in the baking hot plains of the California desert yielded a double album, but the Canadian post-hardcore merchants have chopped it in two, giving us the first instalment now and the second, Pink Moon, later in the year. As a result, Antibloom is but a brief blast of riffs and melody at just eight tracks and 25 minutes long, but in reality it’s an inspired choice. Every song gets its space and there’s no room for ear fatigue – or for filler. Following 2020’s catchy yet overly glossy A Beautiful Place To Drown, and 2022’s rugged return to form Misery Made Me, Antibloom is a demonstration of Silverstein’s strengt...